International protection of intellectual property
By: Gene Grossman, Edwin L.-C. Lai.
Contributors: Lai, Edwin L.-C.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper  8704; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no.  8704.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Intellectual property (International law)
Description: "We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy.  We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size, in their capacities for innovation, and in their absolute and comparative advantage in manufacturing.  We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country's patents that are applied with national treatment.  After describing the determination of national policies in a non-cooperative regime of patent protection, we ask, Why are patents longer in the North? We also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient global regime of patent protection and asking whether harmonization of patent policies is necessary or sufficient for global efficiency"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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